demographic2025

Wage and salaried workers, male (% of male employment) (modeled ILO estimate)

Name: Wage and salaried workers, male (% of male employment) (modeled ILO estimate)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: demographic, % of male employment, wage, and, salaried, workers, male, employment, modeled, ilo, estimate

Latest available country observation from World Bank World Development Indicators, through 2025. Countries can have different observation years; compare broad patterns rather than treating all values as one survey wave.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•186 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

61.9% of male employment

Median: 67.4% of male employment

Countries Covered

186

with available data

Highest

Qatar

99.3% of male employment

Lowest

Chad

11.9% of male employment

Top 5 Countries

1Qatar99.3% of male employment

2Bahrain97.8% of male employment

3Kuwait96.3% of male employment

4Oman95.3% of male employment

5United Arab Emirates95.0% of male employment

By Region

Europe82.7% of male employment(32 countries)

Oceania79.5% of male employment(2 countries)

North America78.5% of male employment(4 countries)

Asia67.2% of male employment(26 countries)

South America62.9% of male employment(7 countries)

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (11.9% of male employment)High (99.3% of male employment)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 61.9% of male employment)

Europe (32)

Oceania (2)

North America (4)

Asia (26)

South America (7)

Other (106)

Africa (9)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Methodology

Country values are taken from the latest observation available in the linked source series.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Qatar	99.3% of male employment
2	Bahrain	97.8% of male employment
3	Kuwait	96.3% of male employment
4	Oman	95.3% of male employment
5	United Arab Emirates	95.0% of male employment
6	Saudi Arabia	94.7% of male employment
7	Norway	93.8% of male employment
8	Brunei Darussalam	93.7% of male employment
9	Belarus	93.0% of male employment
10	Russian Federation	93.0% of male employment
11	United States of America	92.0% of male employment
12	Macao	90.6% of male employment
13	Denmark	90.1% of male employment
14	Germany	89.9% of male employment
15	Japan	89.7% of male employment
16	Luxembourg	89.2% of male employment
17	Hong Kong	89.1% of male employment
18	Cyprus	88.2% of male employment
19	Virgin Islands, U.S.	88.2% of male employment
20	Jordan	87.1% of male employment
21	Sweden	86.2% of male employment
22	Hungary	85.9% of male employment
23	Israel	85.8% of male employment
24	Bulgaria	85.7% of male employment
25	Lithuania	85.6% of male employment
26	Austria	85.5% of male employment
27	Canada	84.7% of male employment
28	France	84.4% of male employment
29	Latvia	84.1% of male employment
30	United Kingdom	83.8% of male employment
31	Singapore	83.8% of male employment
32	Estonia	83.5% of male employment
33	Maldives	83.5% of male employment
34	Croatia	83.4% of male employment
35	Finland	83.4% of male employment
36	Puerto Rico	83.3% of male employment
37	Malta	83.1% of male employment
38	Romania	83.0% of male employment
39	Iceland	82.8% of male employment
40	Slovenia	82.7% of male employment
41	Guam	82.6% of male employment
42	Portugal	82.5% of male employment
43	Spain	82.5% of male employment
44	Belgium	82.3% of male employment
45	Ireland	81.7% of male employment
46	Switzerland	81.5% of male employment
47	Czech Republic	80.7% of male employment
48	South Africa	80.6% of male employment
49	Australia	80.5% of male employment
50	Bosnia and Herzegovina	80.4% of male employment
51	The Republic of North Macedonia	79.6% of male employment
52	Netherlands	79.6% of male employment
53	French Polynesia	79.4% of male employment
54	Slovakia	79.0% of male employment
55	New Zealand	78.5% of male employment
56	New Caledonia	78.3% of male employment
57	Montenegro	77.7% of male employment
58	Mauritius	77.5% of male employment
59	Ukraine	77.4% of male employment
60	Bahamas	76.8% of male employment
61	Poland	76.6% of male employment
62	Suriname	76.3% of male employment
63	State of Palestine	76.0% of male employment
64	Chile	75.2% of male employment
65	Equatorial Guinea	75.1% of male employment
66	Italy	75.0% of male employment
67	South Korea	74.7% of male employment
68	Barbados	74.3% of male employment
69	Eswatini	74.2% of male employment
70	Egypt	73.8% of male employment
71	Kazakhstan	73.2% of male employment
72	Libya	72.9% of male employment
73	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	72.5% of male employment
74	Argentina	72.4% of male employment
75	Botswana	71.9% of male employment
76	Cuba	71.3% of male employment
77	Tunisia	71.2% of male employment
78	Costa Rica	71.2% of male employment
79	Gabon	71.0% of male employment
80	Türkiye	70.8% of male employment
81	Tajikistan	70.7% of male employment
82	Malaysia	70.4% of male employment
83	Serbia	70.3% of male employment
84	Uruguay	70.0% of male employment
85	Mexico	69.3% of male employment
86	El Salvador	69.2% of male employment
87	Iraq	69.0% of male employment
88	Algeria	68.6% of male employment
89	Namibia	68.4% of male employment
90	Cape Verde	68.4% of male employment
91	Trinidad and Tobago	68.0% of male employment
92	Guatemala	67.9% of male employment
93	Guyana	67.4% of male employment
94	Philippines	67.4% of male employment
95	Armenia	67.0% of male employment
96	Lebanon	67.0% of male employment
97	Saint Lucia	66.3% of male employment
98	Kyrgyzstan	66.3% of male employment
99	Belize	65.9% of male employment
100	Turkmenistan	65.6% of male employment
101	Brazil	65.5% of male employment
102	Greece	65.1% of male employment
103	Fiji	65.1% of male employment
104	Rwanda	62.6% of male employment
105	Honduras	61.2% of male employment
106	People's Republic of China	60.4% of male employment
107	Jamaica	59.9% of male employment
108	Tonga	59.1% of male employment
109	Nicaragua	58.9% of male employment
110	Paraguay	58.6% of male employment
111	Venezuela	58.1% of male employment
112	Lesotho	57.8% of male employment
113	Panama	57.1% of male employment
114	Sri Lanka	57.1% of male employment
115	Mongolia	57.1% of male employment
116	Sao Tome and Principe	56.4% of male employment
117	Islamic Republic of Iran	56.0% of male employment
118	Morocco	56.0% of male employment
119	Sudan	55.8% of male employment
120	Syrian Arab Republic	54.2% of male employment
121	Eritrea	53.6% of male employment
122	Somalia	53.5% of male employment
123	Ecuador	53.4% of male employment
124	Djibouti	53.2% of male employment
125	Colombia	52.3% of male employment
126	Samoa	51.5% of male employment
127	Peru	51.4% of male employment
128	Indonesia	51.3% of male employment
129	Vietnam	51.3% of male employment
130	Georgia	50.9% of male employment
131	Comoros	50.7% of male employment
132	Dominican Republic	50.5% of male employment
133	Cambodia	49.5% of male employment
134	Mauritania	49.3% of male employment
135	Thailand	48.5% of male employment
136	Albania	48.2% of male employment
137	Yemen	48.1% of male employment
138	Pakistan	47.7% of male employment
139	Uzbekistan	46.4% of male employment
140	Republic of The Gambia	44.4% of male employment
141	Malawi	44.4% of male employment
142	Kenya	43.3% of male employment
143	Senegal	42.5% of male employment
144	Moldova, Republic of	42.2% of male employment
145	Vanuatu	41.9% of male employment
146	Bangladesh	41.2% of male employment
147	North Korea	39.6% of male employment
148	Bhutan	39.1% of male employment
149	Solomon Islands	39.0% of male employment
150	Ghana	38.2% of male employment
151	Azerbaijan	37.6% of male employment
152	Cameroon	37.5% of male employment
153	Zimbabwe	36.7% of male employment
154	Bolivia	36.7% of male employment
155	Cote d'Ivoire	36.6% of male employment
156	Republic of the Congo	35.5% of male employment
157	Zambia	35.5% of male employment
158	Myanmar	34.3% of male employment
159	Guinea-Bissau	33.8% of male employment
160	Angola	33.5% of male employment
161	Liberia	33.0% of male employment
162	Togo	31.4% of male employment
163	Haiti	29.8% of male employment
164	Timor-Leste	29.3% of male employment
165	Nepal	28.6% of male employment
166	Papua New Guinea	27.6% of male employment
167	Mali	27.0% of male employment
168	Lao People's Democratic Republic	26.9% of male employment
169	India	26.7% of male employment
170	Uganda	26.3% of male employment
171	Benin	24.4% of male employment
172	Guinea	23.7% of male employment
173	Burkina Faso	22.8% of male employment
174	Burundi	21.3% of male employment
175	Mozambique	21.1% of male employment
176	Democratic Republic of the Congo	20.2% of male employment
177	South Sudan	19.7% of male employment
178	United Republic of Tanzania	19.6% of male employment
179	Ethiopia	17.4% of male employment
180	Central African Republic	17.3% of male employment
181	Afghanistan	17.2% of male employment
182	Sierra Leone	17.0% of male employment
183	Nigeria	17.0% of male employment
184	Niger	15.4% of male employment
185	Madagascar	13.9% of male employment
186	Chad	11.9% of male employment

Showing 186 of 186 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).

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